For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’
Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?
But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips against you,
For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law.